The Little Emperors’ New Toys A Critical Inquiry into Children and Television in China
Drawing on original research I conducted in the late 1980s, the book argues for a critical approach to the study of children and television. It begins with critical reappraisals of previous empiricist and interpretative studies to set the ground for a different theoretical inquiry which links biogra...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: In the Name of Modernisation
- 2. Children and Television: Public Concern and Scientific Research
- Roots of Concern
- Television and Change: Before and After
- Windows of Vulnerability
- The Home and the School
- Taking Children Seriously: the Interpretative Turn
- Towards a Critical Perspective
- 3. Positivist Approach and Interpretative Alternative: Critical Reappraisals
- Childhood: Controversies in Conceptualization
- Positivist Approach: an Instrument of Control?
- Interpretative Alternative: a New Empiricist Ethos?.- 4. Critical Approach to the Study of Children and Television
- The Individual and the Society: the Search for Links
- Critical Inquiry and the Study of Children and Television in China
- 5. Children’s Television in China: From Education to Entertainment
- Mass media as Mouthpiece
- The Changing Television Broadcasting System
- Children’s Television: 1959-1990
- 6. Intellectual and moral Education: Parental Control and Children’s Viewing Activity
- Parental Control and Children’s Media Activity: a Historical Sketch
- Parental Control and Children’s Viewing: the Chinese Case
- For a Critical Analysis of the Chinese Case
- 7. The Craze for the Transformers: Children’s Television and the Rise of Consumerism in China
- The New Ethic of Market and Consumption
- The Transformers Fad and Reactions to It
- Beyond the Fad and the Debate
- Conclusion